Yeah, there’s context and there’s context. It’s like the time Eisenhower was finishing up his weekly press conference and a reporter asked him “Mr President, can you tell us something positive about Richard Nixon [Ike’s VP who was in the process of running for Prez and whom Ike notoriously disliked]?” Eisenhower…

Goddamn the Lions just stay so on-brand.

Just put whatever dignity you have aside and admit that it’s funny his name is Rod Wood.

They’re different players for different teams. If Washington wins a cup no one will say “they did it despite Ovechkin’s defense.” Meanwhile, the ‘97 Red Wings had Osgood AND Vernon, Lindstrom, Shanahan, Yzerman, Federov, and Bowman. The ‘02 team had 10 (!!!) hall of famers (plus Datsuyk).

Ovechkin had one season where the league averaged 6 goals a game, his rookie year. Federov had 7, including 3 that were basically 7 or higher. Not sure you realize the extents the improvements in goaltending and hands-off defense have made since clutch and grab. Scoring is lower now than then.

To be fair, for a decent part of Sergei’s great career (my fave non-Ranger ever), he played in the dead-puck era where remarkable talents like him, Forsberg, Sakic, Modano, etc. had to drag lesser opposition up and down the ice because holding and hooking were infractions in name only.

For some reason today, my work colleagues and I started talking about the Art Ross trophy. Want to hear something ridiculous? For 20 years (80/81-2000/2001) there were only 3 players that led the league in total points. Gretzky, Lemieux, Jagr. My mind was blown.

“Nyet”

Fedorov needed 1,248 games to get to 483; Ovechkin broke the record in 777 games.

What’s that? A reason to post this? Okay then.

It’s Week 11 coming up, everybody is dealing with different things. That’s the NFL. You get a routine, learn how to take care of your body and push through things.

It’s astounding how you can watch Steph Curry for awhile and think to yourself “he’s missing a lot of shots and putting up a lot of contested jumpers”...then you look at the stat sheet and he’s shot 50% from the field, 43% from 3, and he hit all his free throws and you’re like “I _swear_ he missed more than 11 shots.”…

Good. Lord.

I didn’t get into it at all, but this game was another demonstration of how unstoppable the Warriors’ small-ball lineup is. They cut the Clippers’ lead to 1 in the fourth quarter, but with Festus Ezeli and Mo Speights both in, it ballooned back to 10 with 5:41 left.

“I did this!”

Papi Le Batard is a national treasure. Dan and Bomani are really good. Robert Flores is solid. Lindsay Czarniak isn’t particularly interesting, but she also isn’t problematic.

Way, way, way- What the hell is Aqua Teen’s Carl’s Stone Cold Lock of The Century of The Week????

Are we allowed to like any ESPN personalities on this blog? SVP is ok right?

“Haha yeah, totally, what a nerd!”

For some reason, I find it hilarious that your main point of identification for Carl Reiner is “Ocean’s 11” [remake] actor.